Borrowed from Latin narcissus, from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος, ultimately either from qsb-grc or related to νάρκη.

• (America) IPA: /nɑɹˈsɪsəs/

narcissus

1. Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Second Pastoral. Or, Alexis.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC ↗, page 6 ↗:

     The Daughters of the Flood have ſearch'd the Mead / For Violets pale, and cropt the Poppy's Head: / The Short Narciſſus and fair Daffodil, / Pancies to pleaſe the Sight, and Caſſia ſvveet to ſmell: […]

2. A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus

• French: narcisse
• German: Narzisse
• Italian: narciso
• Portuguese: narciso
• Russian: нарци́сс
• Spanish: narciso

From Ancient Greek Νάρκισσος, a character in Greek mythology, renowned for his beauty and pride.

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Amaryllidaceae – daffodils.

From Latin Narcissus, from Ancient Greek Νάρκισσος.

1. (Greek mythology) A youth who spurned the love of Echo and fell in love with his own reflection in a pool: in some versions of the myth, he drowned trying to reach it, while in others he sat fixated until a god took pity and transformed him into a flower.
   • 1982, Carl G. Vaught, The Quest for Wholeness‎^{[http://books.google.com/books?id=EA4iF1ApJmAC&pg=PA25&dq=%22Narcissus%22+-intitle:%22Narcissus%22&hl=en&ei=P5umTuK2BI_NmQXf4aC5Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwATh4#v=onepage&q=%22Narcissus%22%20-intitle%3A%22Narcissus%22&f=false]}, page 25:

     At the beginning of his narrative, Ishmael mentions Narcissus, the legendary character who plunged into the water and was drowned in the attempt to grasp his own essence (p. 14). Narcissus was unwilling to understand the relationship between himself and “the ungraspable phantom of life” in gradualistic terms and sought to bring that relationship to immediate closure, thus annihilating himself.

   • 1999, Mieke Bal, Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History‎^{[http://books.google.com/books?id=S9TMI2IYqU4C&pg=PA237&dq=%22Narcissus%22+-intitle:%22Narcissus%22&hl=en&ei=knemTv67Ho_JmQX66oy0Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22Narcissus%22%20-intitle%3A%22Narcissus%22&f=false]}, page 237:

     Narcissus, as the myth has it, died because, unlike Lacan's child, he did not recognize himself; nor did he perceive the mirror for what it was: a boundary between reality and fiction.¹⁵

• narcissism
• Narcissus complex

• French: Narcisse
• German: Narziss
• Italian: Narciso
• Portuguese: Narciso
• Russian: Нарци́сс
• Spanish: Narciso